Watchmaker&#39;s tool.



Patented la-n. 2|,` |902.

J. A. WIEDEMANN.

WATCHMAKERS TOOL.

(Application led Oct. 7, 1901.\

(No Model.)

@Hor leads UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH A. WIEDEMANN, OF ELDORADO, KANSAS.

WATCHIVIAKRS TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 691,516, dated January 21, 1902.

Appllcationliled October 7, 1901. Serial No. 77.881. (No model.)

.To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JOSEPH A. WIEDEMAN'N, a citizen of the United States, residing at Eldorado, in the county of Butler and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lVatchmakers Tools; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to watchmakers tools, and more particularly to tools for removing the hands from their arbors, and known to the trade as watch-hand removers.

The object of the invention is to provide a tool of this character by means of which the hands may be expeditiously removed from their arbors without danger of cracking or otherwise injuring the dial, special provision being made for distributing the strain of the tool across the face of the dial instead of applying the strain at one point.

With this and other objects in view the invention consists in certain features of construction and combination of parts, which will be hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view illustrating the application of the invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the fulcrum-plate. Fig. Sis a longitudinal sectional view of the same.

In the drawings, 1 denotes the tool, provided at one end with claws 2 for the purpose of removing the minute and hour hands and provided at the opposite end with claws 3 for the purpose of removing the seconds-hand.

4 denotes a fulcrum-plate having stamped therefrom upwardly projecting tongues 5, connected by a f ulcrum-pin 6, which is seated. in apertures 7, formed in said tongues below their upper ends, so that when the tool l is placed upon the fulcrum-pin the ends of the tongues above the pin serve to prevent the tool slipping off the pin in the manipulation of the tool in the act of removing the hands. It will thus be seen that instead of applying pressure directly at one point in the act of removing the hands, which oftentimes results in the cracking of the dial, the pressure is distributed upon said dial the full length and width of the fulcrum-plate, thus reducing to a minimum the liability of damaging the said dial.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction, mode of operation, and advantages of the invention will be readily understood.

While the preferred form of the invention is as herein described, it will of course be understood that changes in the form, proportion,`and minor details of construction may be made within the scope of the invention without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patont, isl The combination with a fulcrum-plate the under side of which is at and smooth and is adapted to rest upon the dial of a watch, said plate having struck up from it parallel tongues connected by a cross-pin arranged a slight distance below the upper ends of said tongues, of a watch-hand-removing tool provided with a claw, said tool when in use adapted to fulcrum upon said pin and be prevented from slipping off the ends thereof above the extreme upper ends of said tongues, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

JOSEPH A. WIEDEMANN.

Witnesses:

W. E. STONE, T. A. KRAMER. 

